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HP 'should split' - Merrill Lynch
News Longtime Wall Street analyst Steven Milunovich is urging Hewlett-Packard's top management to split the company into two separate businesses. Milunovich delivered the unsolicited advice in a Merrill Lynch research note published on Monday, a day...
[June 8, 2004, 9:25]
Sun's Orion pricing to arrive within two months
News We remain neutral on Sun, as this strategy will take one to two years to gain traction," Milunovich wrote in a report Tuesday. We believe (that) for Orion to be successful, Sun must more aggressively sell Solaris on x86 systems," Milunovich said...
[April 30, 2003, 7:46]
Sun sets subscription price for Orion
News On Wednesday, Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich disclosed a price range in a report after meeting with Schwartz. Sun is considering an annual subscription fee of $100 to $200 per employee," Milunovich said.
[April 24, 2003, 12:58]
EMC revs up its matrix
News Although it is about a year late, Symm 6 is important both for resuscitating (EMC's) mainstay product line as well as for its impact on other revenue lines," Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich said in a research note last week.
[January 30, 2003, 14:57]
Analysts forecast layoffs at Sun
News Additional layoffs would bring it in line with rivals such as EMC, which has had two rounds of layoffs of 23 percent and 7 percent, Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich said in a research note on Tuesday.
[October 15, 2002, 15:33]
HP predicts 20 percent growth
News Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich on Monday urged HP to split into two companies -- dividing printers from computers or consumer technology from higher-end enterprise products. Fiorina didn't directly address Milunovich's prescription, but she...
[June 9, 2004, 9:45]
Capellas steps down from HP
News Fiorina may have to find a replacement for Capellas to help oversee operations, Milunovich said. Investors may doubt that chief executive Carly Fiorina can handle such a big job herself," said Milunovich.
[November 11, 2002, 15:08]
IBM's profits fall
News Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich said in a research note that Palmisano may have decided to reset estimates as a buffer for future quarters. It is not clear to us as to whether the business is getting that much worse or this announcement...
[April 8, 2002, 15:33]
Solaris will run on AMD's Opteron
News Schwartz also criticised some of a scathing open letter by Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich last week, who advised among other things that Sun drop its Java Desktop System, code-named Mad Hatter, and its Java software.
[October 10, 2003, 11:15]
Ads claim adding HP is a plus
News Ahead of the new ad campaign, Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich panned the overall theme of the ads, noting that slogans that could apply to any number of companies are not the way to go. In our view, most slogans are meaningless generalities...
[November 18, 2002, 11:18]
HP quits supplying printers to Dell
News Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich estimated that HP printers sold through Dell represent approximately 3 percent of HP's $9bn (£5.8bn) in imaging hardware sales, but said that other partners could quickly make up for that $300m in lost sales.
[July 24, 2002, 8:16]
HP merger opponent gains support
News Steven Milunovich, a Merrill Lynch analyst, is recommending that investors snap up HP shares on expectations the merger will go through. Milunovich said he now thinks the merger has a "better than 50 percent chance" of being OK'd, while Bear...
[February 21, 2002, 8:46]
EMC to axe 1,350 jobs
News Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich had expected revenue of $1.39bn. And the company hasn't been afraid to cut prices deeply to curtail market-share losses, Milunovich said. EMC, which sells higher-end storage systems and the software used to...
[October 4, 2002, 9:28]
IBM expanding further into Intel's server market
News Some, including Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich, say Big Blue's effort is beginning to pay off. IBM now makes money in Intel servers," Milunovich said in a Tuesday report. In its attempt to conquer the Intel server market, IBM is working on...
[March 14, 2003, 8:48]
Merrill forecasts IT spending growth in 2002
News We can't recall a year that changed so dramatically," Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich said in a report on the survey Wednesday. Re-prioritisation post 9/11 might crowd out some mainstream spending," Milunovich said.
[January 2, 2002, 15:05]
Tech firms blame Europe for slow growth
News This appears to be a global IT recession; the question now is when the US will pick up," said Steven Milunovich, Merrill's tech strategist. Perhaps we should be interviewing CFOs rather than CIOs," Milunovich said.
[July 12, 2001, 15:41]
Healthy Apple reaps iPod profits
News Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich was among a number of analysts who suggested in recent weeks that Apple might be able to outdo earnings estimates through strong iPod sales. Apple could beat our estimate, based on strong iPod demand and a...
[April 15, 2004, 8:40]
Dell sees server and PC growth
News The most likely driver of softer sales would be state and local government spending, including education," Milunovich said. A drop in PC sales to US state and local governments could pose at least a small risk for the second quarter, because many...
[May 16, 2003, 8:22]
Sun seeks to restore its sheen
News Then, Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich issued an open letter on Thursday to Sun chief executive Scott McNealy, urging him to cut expenses through additional layoffs to avoid becoming "irrelevant to most users, and eventually acquired.
[October 8, 2003, 11:20]
IBM brings speed to the low end
News Server vendors are beating each other up on price," Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich said in a report on Wednesday. IBM is bringing a faster processor to its lowest-end p615 Unix server and announced new software and hardware on Thursday for...
[October 20, 2003, 12:45]
